Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress voted nearly two weeks ago to effectively end Washington D.C.'s abortion program for the poor, which is funded by city taxpayers. Congress, in its wisdom, went on to repeal three other laws that had been approved by the city government--the residency requirement for city workers, a section of the city's human rights law, and a ban on insurance company discrimination against AIDS victims...
...black poverty can no longer be blamed on racism because discrimination is now a matter of class more than race. The argument permits whites to feel a sense of relief. But the claim is an insidious one. Racism still flourishes, not just in Yonkers, N.Y., and the Howard Beach section of Queens, but in every segregated neighborhood in the nation, which means pretty much everywhere. In addition, discrimination based on class distinctions is no less noxious than that based on racial ones. The Underclass reels under a double hit: covert racial biases and overt class ones...
...step that his plan should not include is the panacea offered by Pete DuPont and Ec 10 section leaders--removing price supports. Currently, if the market price of agricultural commodities falls below an established floor, the federal government pays farmers the difference. Conservatives argue that the supports subsidize inefficiency and perpetuate a surplus that depresses prices...
...purpose is not to gripe, but to request an immediate change. Two hundred-odd students will simply not learn the math that is being taught, and thus their futures in their respective fields will be harmed. Further-more, if one section leader is better than another, the nature of the course is such that this difference in teaching ability will reflect unfairly upon those students who had the pure chance of being in a better section, while the other students will suffer the adverse effects...
...future, I suggest that this class be taught in a lecture format three times a week, with an extra section. Joshua L. Bonkovsky